Hi Mindy, I'm back again. I went back to my parents' home today and was able to get rid of the federal penalty with a few steps before it got to asking about annualized income (I had to go back to their 2023 return to get some numbers. So the federal is all set.
Still having trouble with Virginia, though. Yesterday before I wrote to you I had tried going in to the Virginia return to get rid of the penalty, and got to a page where it asked about annualized payments, so I put in the estimated tax payments they had made for the first three quarters (that's all it asked for). The next screen asked for their income for the first three quarters and at that point I backed out because I wasn't sure how to respond.
After clearing up the federal today, they also no longer owe a penalty for Virginia. However, when running the Smartcheck for Virginia, I got a screen showing the form 760C and saying that the annualized payments must be less than or equal to the actual payment. It shows right on the form that the annualized payment I put in is equal to the actual payment, and I can't figure out any way to get rid of this "error." I tried to find my way back into what I was working on yesterday when trying to get rid of the Virginia penalty, but couldn't.
Any ideas on how to get rid of this error message (which really doesn't seem to be an error)? I seem to have made things worse.
